THE LIE: DECEPTION TO THE CEO

On Islander

Aware of the news on the networks and fed up with it, Dylan called Amber, he couldn’t let her think he had anything to do with it.

In view, that she didn’t answer the call, he decided to go downstairs. As he stood in front of the door, he was tempted to open it with his own keys, but he knew this didn’t suit him. So he rang the doorbell.

Ding, dong! Ding, dong!

She, presuming it was him, ran and left the cell phone in his room, then ran to open the door.

-Hello! And that, you here at this hour?” she asked, returning to the kitchen, where she was heating milk, to drink a cup and go to sleep.

-I was calling you, but since you didn’t answer, I got worried and decided to come downstairs,” he answered, receiving a cup of hot milk from her, which he accepted, even though he didn’t like to drink milk and even less to sleep.

-I didn’t hear the cell phone, because I left it on the bed,” she answered immediately.

-Thank you! It’s divine,” he commented, tasting the milk.

-If I don’t drink it, I won’t fall asleep,” she added with a half smile, observing his eyes, trying to find out the truth about his real intentions with her.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

-I love it, it fascinates me! That you look at me like that, into my eyes. I want you to enter the depths of my soul, so you can see how much I love you,” he declared, guessing her intentions, looking at him like that.

-Since when do you like me?” she asked, surprising him with her question.

-Since the moment I saw you for the first time, I think it was love at first sight,” he said, approaching her to hug her, but she did not allow him to do so, walking towards the sofa in the main living room of the apartment, avoiding his approach.

-I don’t remember when that was,” she declared sincerely.

-At your first anniversary party at Morillo & Wood Construction, you were Christopher’s girlfriend,” she mentioned to Christopher, even though it was the last thing she wanted. He hesitated about how to probe to see if she was aware of the news on the networks.

-Why didn’t you ever tell me anything?” he asked, without looking away from her eyes. At that moment, she looked at him in a penetrating and scrutinizing way.

-Because from that first meeting, I respected you. You were in a formal and stable relationship, as far as I could tell, that same night. Besides, you looked very much in love,” he added, not knowing where she was going with this conversation.

-That speaks very well of you! So why were you shirtless the day Christopher found us in the suite at the Hotel Rosal? -she asked, with a sharp, penetrating look.

-Are you doubting me?” he questioned, playing the victim.

“The answer is simple, you remember I mentioned to you “that I was thirsty.” In my haste, when I drank the water, it fell on my shirt, so I took it off and was waiting for you to come out of the bedroom to change,” taking his hand to his face to rub his nose.

This gesture was more effective than a thousand words, since she had taken courses in which she learned that by doing so, the interlocutor is lying. Evidently, she could not end her engagement with him, right off the bat, so she had to give him the runaround.

-And no, I wasn’t doubting you, just remembering again, everything that happened to me that day, there are many circumstances, situations that I can’t explain,” she said, looking at him again in a very penetrating way.

Dylan, uncomfortable with Amber’s looks and to avoid her to keep probing about other matters, preferred to say goodbye, claiming that since he had already seen her and found that she was fine, he would leave her to go to sleep.

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Left alone in the apartment, Amber gathered all her personal belongings such as her clothes and prepared her suitcase to take everything back to Santiago de Leon. Remembering at that moment that she had not bought her ticket.

She called her friend, the owner of one of the best travel agencies, and asked her to get her a ticket with or without stopover to Santiago de Leon, if possible very early in the morning, that is to say the first flight.

Before falling asleep, her friend confirmed the flight, sending her the online check in to her website. By virtue of this, Amber woke up at four in the morning, to be at the airport at the right time.

Two hours later, in Santiago de Leon

The commercial flight landed, which had taken off from Islander, on which Amber came down the stairs of the plane. She, elegant, serious, but very hurt analyzed with sadness the causes of her return on this trip.

“They will all pay me back for the damage they did to me. Besides, I will find out who exactly I should trust and who not. Apparently there are many involved,” she thought raising one of her eyebrows.

“I feel like a puppet, which some people moved at their whims, among them Christopher, the man I loved so much,” she reflected very sadly, but at the same time angry.

Before arriving at her apartment, she went directly to her office, to the office she worked for, meeting her friend Nairobi, who had very bad news for her.

-Last night, at the checkpoint, apparently in a riot, both Jefferson and Jerson Prieto were killed. This happened two hours after they entered the police station. There are many wounded and it is not known for sure what was the cause of the riot.

-NOOOO!” shouted Amber, throwing her bag on the desk, “It was the chance I had to clear my name. Are you sure they are dead?” she asked, angry and disappointed.

-She read the names of the dead, as well as the names of the wounded and the hospitals they were taken to. She named them, along with two others, as the dead.

-I deduce that as the director is still Glenys, Christopher’s friend, she will not make any inquiry as she did in my case. -He commented with rage and anger.

-It’s up to us, whether it stays that way or not,” commented Nairobi, looking at her with uneasiness, “Let’s mobilize the media!

-You’re right. I’m going to leave my luggage in the apartment and come back, so we can try to find out what really happened last night at the checkpoint. Above all, to find out if it was a riot or not – Amber affirmed, doubting this version, offered by the director of the place…